person or book cover
Screen cap from promotional trailer
form y separately published work icon Saw III single work   film/TV   horror  
Note: Noth Leigh Whannell and James Wan are credited with 'story' for this film; Whannell is credited with the screenplay.
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Saw III
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The third film in the Saw franchise, Saw III shows 'Jigsaw' growing increasingly weak from his incurable cancer, and his apprentice starting to add her own twist to the games that they force their victims to endure.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Twisted Pictures ,
      2006 .
      person or book cover
      Screen cap from promotional trailer
      Extent: 108min.p.

Works about this Work

Time Is Wasting : Con/sequence and S/pace in the Saw Series Steve Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Horror Studies , November vol. 1 no. 2 2010; (p. 225-239)

'Horror film sequels have not received as much serious critical attention as they deserve this is especially true of the Saw franchise, which has suffered a general dismissal under the derogatory banner Torture Porn. In this article I use detailed textual analysis of the Saw series to expound how film sequels employ and complicate expected temporal and spatial relations in particular, I investigate how the Saw sequels tie space and time into their narrative, methodological and moral sensibilities. Far from being a gimmick or a means of ensuring loyalty to the franchise (one has to be familiar with the events of previous episodes to ascertain what is happening), it is my contention that the Saw cycle directly requests that we examine the nature of space and time, in terms of both cinematic technique and our lived, off-screen temporal/spatial orientations.' (Publication abstract)

Time Is Wasting : Con/sequence and S/pace in the Saw Series Steve Jones , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Horror Studies , November vol. 1 no. 2 2010; (p. 225-239)

'Horror film sequels have not received as much serious critical attention as they deserve this is especially true of the Saw franchise, which has suffered a general dismissal under the derogatory banner Torture Porn. In this article I use detailed textual analysis of the Saw series to expound how film sequels employ and complicate expected temporal and spatial relations in particular, I investigate how the Saw sequels tie space and time into their narrative, methodological and moral sensibilities. Far from being a gimmick or a means of ensuring loyalty to the franchise (one has to be familiar with the events of previous episodes to ascertain what is happening), it is my contention that the Saw cycle directly requests that we examine the nature of space and time, in terms of both cinematic technique and our lived, off-screen temporal/spatial orientations.' (Publication abstract)

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